[Info-vax] [OT] PDP-11 address space, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lclbf5$hs1$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2014-02-02, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2014-02-01 07:41, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>
>>> Of course, being as they are still being made, it would be real
>>> interesting to see a new PDP-11 with more address lines, too. :-)
>>> There I go dreaming again.  :-)  But, you have to admiit, it could
>>> be a lot of fun.
>>>
>>> Hmmm..   Let's see...  How many overlays would it take to get Open
>>> Office running on a PDP-11?   :-)
>>
>> Eh.. What? Any "modern" PDP-11 already have 22 address lines...
>> My PDP-11 at home have 4 megs of ram.
>> Have you never seen a PDP-11 with that? Under which rock have you been 
>> the last 40 years, Bill? :-)
>>
> 
> In fairness to Bill, I think he's talking about program space address
> lines, instead of machine space address lines (ie: he wants to be able
> to run larger programs without getting stuck into reading the overlay
> section of the TKB manual yet again :-)).
> 
> Simon.
> 
> PS: I absolutely do _not_ miss TKB. :-)
> 

I only did RSX once, for a project when I was with Martin Marietta.
But I was real good at doing overlays with Ultrix-11.  Especially
for larger kernels.

But, yes, I would love to be able to do bigger programs on PDP-11s.
But if nothing else develops with the OSes, I guess it won't make
much difference except for Ultrix-11.

bill

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